Call for Papers: New Perspectives on the Menopause
We invite scholars from all career stages and disciplines to submit abstracts for this one-day, in-person conference to be hosted at King’s College London, June 15th 2024. We are delighted to announce that our plenary speaker is Professor Kathleen Riach from the University of Glasgow: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/staff/kathleenriach/#researchinterests. The aim of the conference is to bring together speakers to discuss recent developments in researching and understanding the menopause in diverse contexts, whether professional, medical, historical, cross-cultural or personal. Possible themes can include, but are not restricted to:
- biomedical, scientific and cultural framings of the menopause in an historical context;
- the social and political implications/lived experience of new technologies to delay or reverse the menopause;
- the discourse and experience of ‘natural’ menopause;
- sex, sexuality and the menopause;
- menopause and the workplace including, inter alia, policies, discrimination, experiences of stigma and/or empowerment;
- cultural representations of the menopause;
- menopause in the global South;
- menopausal experiences of migrant women in the global North;
- any other aspect of embodied intersectional lived experience, for example, the menopause as an event heralding ageing, invisibility, freedom, illness, status change.
- menopause and the mid-life
We hope to provide some additional funding for PGR students whose papers are accepted.
Abstracts should be 250-300 words. Please send all abstracts, along with a brief bio-bibliography, to Felicity Moffat (felicity.moffat@kcl.ac.uk) and Siobhán McIlvanney (siobhan.mcilvanney(at)kcl.ac.uk) by January 26th, 2024. Colleagues will be notified about the status of their proposals by mid-February with the final programme being published at the end of February 2024. A selection of papers will be put forward for consideration in a forthcoming volume on the menopause, edited by Professor Susan Pickard, in the De Gruyter series, Ageing and Care in 2025, https://blog.degruyter.com/call-for-manuscripts-cultures-of-ageing-and-care/.
Siobhán McIlvanney, Professor of French and Francophone Women’s Writing, King’s College London
Felicity Moffat, PhD candidate, King’s College London
Susan Pickard, Director of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool
Shirley Jordan, Professor of French Studies, Newcastle University
The organisers are pleased to acknowledge the financial support of King’s College London Arts and Humanities Diversity and Inclusion Fund and Small Grants for Research Students.